Arts & Entertainment SXSW: You Will Never Find a More Wretched Hive of Scum and Villany As far as we know, SFists Jackson and Krissy continue their tear though Austin, Texas at SXSW, but who the hell knows? We haven't heard from Krissy since yesterday (which might be an
Arts & Entertainment The Motivational Adventures of the SuperFisters People seem to take particular delight in rummaging through the emotional trash of those who project an image of purity, and Adam's no disappointment: he gets tons of love notes from fans, and
Arts & Entertainment An Entire Week's Worth of Eavesdropping, Knocked Off in a Single Busride Sniff. Mom, I'm fine. I have like an AMAZING immune system right now. I take vitamins every day. Sniff It's just a cold. What kind of doctor are you going to go see
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sex and the U.S. Government Here at Stage Fog we try, a bit desperately at times, to wrench the week's picks into some sort of theme. "Sex and the U.S. Government" seems a bit of a stretch,
SF News Political Junkie: A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Mayor Sure, SF's Gavin Newsom's legalized gay marriage, and San Jose's Ron Gonzales built a city hall (and transacted some funny business with garbage collectors, but that's a separate story) -- but they got
Arts & Entertainment It's Peter Berlin Day, What Did You Get Me? Inside the Castro, it wasn't much warmer, but event MC Heklina did the best she could to heat things up as, among other things, the Mayor's office officially proclaimed it "Peter Berlin Day"
Arts & Entertainment So Long, Ira We'll miss Miller, as we thought he was one of the best football reads there was. He wrote in a bare-bones style and just stuck to football, shying away from long discussions of
Arts & Entertainment Love in the Time of Cleveland Steamers Call us bitter, but we simply don't have any words in us to express love beyond "I'd hit it." It is therefore astounding to us that Lee Lessack deftly assembled seventeen swoony-croony ballads
SF News Red Staters Welcome! See that guy over there on the right? That's Barry Goldwater, accepting the Republican nomination for president in our fair city back in 1964, in the same venue where we now try out
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: S-T-A-G-E-F-O-G, Stage Fog at Post Street Theatre For those of us who have ever been terrorized and traumatized by school spelling bees, or who couldn't get a grip on "i before e except after c," this
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>Jimmy and Judy</i> High praise indeed! While we had hoped to see the film on the big screen at its IndieFest premiere on February 4, when we heard that Edward Furlong and Rachael Bella, the stars
Arts & Entertainment Insert High-larious Joke About the Gong Show Here Hey, did you see the Falun Gong protestors at the Chinese New Year parade? They were barred from marching in the parade -- organizers say it's because F.G. is too political --
misc The State Department Not Feeling the Whole Brokeback Thing According to the State Department, one of the groups in question, the International Lesbian & Gay Association, was once associated with NAMBLA. Years ago. And expelled them. And haven't been associated with since.
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: We're Here; We're Queer This week Stage Fog features what's up at the city's best queer theater companies. New Conservatory Theatre Center We've mentioned plays at New Conservatory Theatre Center before, but there's always so much going
misc Gay Law Soldiers On Just because the governor put a stop to marriage equality a few months ago, don't think gay legislation is down for the count. There's still plenty of work to be done: next week,
SF News CSI: Donner Party The archeologists came to the conclusion because they couldn't find any signs on the human bones of them being nibbled on. Which we guess would mean tooth marks. They also could find no
SF News And What is Tit Play? Chopped Liver? Okay, folks. Here's what we're facing: in the December issue of "Faith: The Bay Area Catholic Newsletter," the editor writes that "if it should be the case that homosexual desires are related to
SF News Too Bad, So Sad Somehow, they managed to screw up and not get enough signatures to qualify their initiative to amend the state constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage. They needed 598,105 signatures, but they didn't get
misc Protestors at UC Santa Cruz Kiss-In Hate Our Freedom In response, TC. Dixon Osburn, executive director of Service members Legal Defense Network (SLDN) said: "to suggest that a gay kiss-in is a 'credible threat' is absurd, homophobic and irrational. The Pentagon is
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Goes To Austria Europe, of course, has banned capital punishment for years. As has much pretty much most of the Western world, as well as pretty much most of the rest of the world. Which is
SF News Fourth Runner-Up Gavin's number five! Gavin's number five! Mayor Newsom came in fifth in this year's World Mayor Awards -- a markedly better showing than last year, where he came in "less than 1500 votes
SF News Week 14 NFL Preview The biggest, most compelling reason to watch is that it is now official--the Rai-duhs have a new QB. Yep, it's Tui time as Marvelous Norv Turner has announced that Marques Tuiasosopo will indeed
misc Wells Embargo Red state on blue state violence! The conservative Colorado-based group Focus on the Family (the guys who came out against SpongeBob Squarepants) has announced that it's withdrawing all its money from Wells Fargo
SF News No-Host Bar If this were an Evite, a bunch of people in San Francisco would be frantically changing their responses from "yes" to "unfortunately, something's come up," for Memphis, TN Democratic representative Harold Ford Jr.
SF News Political Junkie: Smother Mother Come here, widdle Andrew, let Mommy bury you in her bosom! San Francisco's current best Freudian drama took another lurch into the Viennese land of cigars and trains steaming into tunnels, as the
